Annexes to RICE proposal April, 2016 Annex 1. Budget summary ....................................................................................................................... 3 Annex 2. Partnership strategy .................................................................................................................. 4 Annex 3. Capacity development ............................................................................................................ 18 Annex 4. Gender .................................................................................................................................... 22 Annex 5. Youth strategy ........................................................................................................................ 26 Annex 6. Results-based management .................................................................................................... 28 Annex 7. Linkages with other CRPs and site integration ......................................................................... 35 Annex 8. RICE staffing ............................................................................................................................ 63 8. 1 Program Planning and Management Team ................................................................................. 63 8.2 Flagship project 1 ........................................................................................................................ 73 8.3 Flagship project 2 ........................................................................................................................ 84 8.4 Flagship project 3 ........................................................................................................................ 93 8.5 Flagship project 4 ...................................................................................................................... 102 8.6 Flagship project 5 ...................................................................................................................... 112 Annex 9. Open Access and Open Data ................................................................................................. 128 Annex 10. Intellectual asset management ........................................................................................... 136 Annex 11. RICE contributions to the CGIAR-SRF Grand Challenges ....................................................... 140 Annex 12. RICE and the SDGs ............................................................................................................... 144 Annex 13. Communication strategy ..................................................................................................... 153 Annex 14. References and acronyms and abbreviations....................................................................... 157 14.1 References .............................................................................................................................. 157 14.2 Acronyms and abbreviations.................................................................................................... 166 Annex 15. Response to reviews and caveats ........................................................................................ 168 15.1 ISPC review of the RAFS pre-proposal ...................................................................................... 168 15.2 ISPC overall review of the whole CRP portfolio (pre-proposals) ................................................ 175 15.3 CB-SPPC review of RAFS ........................................................................................................... 177 15.4 Caveats expressed by the Joint Consortium Board/Centers/Fund Council Working Group,....... 178 RICE annexes April 1 Page 1 15.5 Caveats expressed by the ISPC, dated 9 December 2015 .......................................................... 180 15.6 Additional caveats expressed by the Fund Council ................................................................... 182 Annex 16. RICE impact target estimations............................................................................................ 183 Annex 17. Partners’ Letters of Support to RICE CRP ............................................................................. 187 RICE annexes April 1 Page 2 Annex 1. Budget summary Budget details are found in the separate document ‘RICE budget narratives’. RICE annexes April 1 Page 3 Annex 2. Partnership strategy A systematic overview of partnerships, partnership classification, and partnership approaches under GRiSP/RICE can be found in the GRiSP Partnership report (or see GRiSP 2013b). RICE builds on GRiSP, and continues with most of its partnerships. Together, the six coordinating GRiSP centers (IRRI, AfricaRice, CIAT, Cirad, IRD, JIRCAS) align and bring to the table consortia, networks, platforms, programs, and collaborative projects with about 900 partners from government, nongovernment, public, private, and civil society sectors. About 50% of the GRiSP partners mainly play a role as research partners, whereas the other 50% are mainly development and scaling. A complete listing of all partners is available on the GRiSP website (www.grisp.net/main/summary). At a global scale, GRiSP acts as an overarching umbrella and “organizing principle” for rice research for development. GRiSP facilitates interaction among partners across the globe not only through its combined research agenda and R&D activities but also through workshops, conferences, study tours, and field visits. 1. Partnership principles In developing and maintaining partnerships, RICE applies the following principles: Fostering trust and mutual respect, through long-term and transparent engagement processes and consistent and open communication lines. RICE will continue building on the long-standing and historic partnerships of the RICE centers and GRiSP that have proven fruitful and sustainable over long periods. New partners will be sought in response to new challenges and developments in the research for development arena. To facilitate consistent and open communication lines, the RICE centers will maintain offices with dedicated liaison officers in most of the collaborating countries or regions. Sharing a common agenda, with activities coordinated through a mutually reinforcing plan of action. For example, the RICE centers will continue regular bilateral planning meetings with their national partners and multicountry planning exercises through regional bodies (e.g., CORRA, CAADP, and FARA), consortia (e.g., IRRC, CURE, FLAR, and the various Africa-wide task forces), and large bilateral projects (e.g., CSISA and STRASA). Joint work plans will be developed, documented, and reviewed on a regular (often annual) basis. Tapping into cutting-edge research skills and capabilities of world-class advanced research organizations. GRiSP already collaborates with many advanced research institutes and universities in western countries, and RICE will continue building on these partnerships. However, it will also increasingly seek to mobilize nontraditional partners, for example, in BIC (Brazil, India, and China), Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, China. Examples of upstream research partners are given in the various FP descriptions. Engaging and conducting dialogues with stakeholders. Besides the above planning exercises with direct partners, RICE will engage in stakeholder dialogue locally, nationally, and internationally. At the local level, multistakeholder platforms will involve the participation of various stakeholders, some of whom may become project partners. At the national level, RICE will RICE annexes April 1 Page 4 facilitate and/or engage in policy dialogues that involve a variety of stakeholders in the public and private sector. At the international level, the RICE centers will actively interact with such organizations as FARA, CAADP, and SAARC. Conducting shared measurements and analyses, and joint publication at all stages of the impact pathway. For example, partners will be involved in shared data collection and analysis of household survey data, participatory varietal selection, satellite and remote-sensing imagery, laboratory and field experiments, modeling exercises, and impact assessments (to name a few). Between 2010 and 2013, more than 70% of the 569 publications from GRiSP involved collaboration with partners from other institutes (Elsevier 2014). Providing backbone and coordination support to facilitate and maintain partnerships. RICE will continue the practice of GRiSP to provide and/or host the secretariats of partnership arrangements, such as CORRA, CURE, FLAR, IRRC, NEC, and the various Africa-wide task forces (see GRiSP partnership report for more details). It will also organize major recurring events such as the International Rice Congress, Africa Rice Congress, and Rice Congress for Latin America and the Caribbean. Fostering equality in partnerships. In RICE, partnerships will be based on the principle of equality. Breaking with a long and pervasive tradition of CGIAR, RICE will strive toward minimum financial dependencies among partners, as such dependencies skew power balances. In contrast, and as per the new CGIAR SRF, “...the general expectation will be of burden sharing and parallel finance, rather than internal transfers from one partner to the other” (SRF 2015, p 32). RICE will use its dialogues and joint activities to seek commitments from clients and national partners to make complementary investments and policy